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Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2; Vocalise
Jacek Kaspszyk | Philharmonia Orchestra
Ludwig Minkus may have been no Delibes or Tchaikovsky, but he does not deserve the disparaging comments that have often...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995
Rachmaninov The Miserly Knight
Pushkin's ''little tragedies'' have attracted a number of composers (Dargomizhsky to The Stone Guest, Rimsky-Korsakov to Mozart and Salieri). He...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994
Rachmaninov (The) Bells; Russian Songs
Make no mistake about it, Previn's version of The bells is first class in every way and the 1976 recording...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1986
Rachmaninov Vespers
Nikolai Korniev | Olga Borodina | St Petersburg Chamber Choir | Vladimir Mostowoy
The St Petersburg Chamber Choir sing the Vespers, or All-Night Vigil, dramatically, suggesting comparisons with Rostropovich rather than with the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994
Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux
Max Harrison was full of praise for this disc when it first emerged in 1984, and I salute its transfer...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1988
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1; Isle of the Dead
Mikhail Pletnev | Russian National Orchestra
In a generation, Rachmaninov’s symphonies have come in from the cold, and none more so than No 1 in D...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2000
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Walter Gieseking | Willem Mengelberg
''Kullervo and his sister'', the centrepiece of the Kullervo Symphony, leaves the listener in no doubt that Sibelius had a...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1984
Rachmaninov; Ravel Piano Works
Rachmaninov and Ravel may strike you as strange bed-fellows but they sit together well enough in this showcase of 15-year-old...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003
Medtner/Rachmaninov Piano Works
Vladimir Viardo is the Russian pianist who, after winning the 1973 Van Cliburn Competition, found himself denied his celebrity and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1996
Moiseiwitsch - Rachmaninov recordings, 1937-43
Basil Cameron | Benno Moiseiwitsch | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Walter Goehr
No pianist other than the composer himself has been more intimately associated with Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
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